Just checking before buying my new machine

[C3PO]

Dear community members,

After 6 months of working with proxmox on an old spare box I am so happy with Proxmox that I decided to buy a new machine. You probably get this question often to check hardware, but I am still hoping that you want to help me, because it would be devastating if it would not work.

I was looking for a (moderate) energy efficient machine on which I can run 4-6 virtual machines. Two will be for daily operations with home-assistant on one and debian on another with debian & docker. The other machines are mainly for tinkering/testing OS-es/Python scripts/ etcetera.

The set-up I want to buy is:
- ASRock Deskmini X300
- AMD Ryzen 5600G
- 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
- 32Gb DDR4 SO-DIMM

Can I install proxmox on this hardware without issues?

Another thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

C3PO - Human cyborg relations

 

[Brian Read]

It looks ok to me, however I'd think about some redundancy on the SSD/HD side.

 

[leesteken]

I do hope we don't have to explain the problems with QLC drives or poor performance with non-enterprise drives that lack PLP (if you want to use ZFS).

 

[C3PO]

@Brian Read Thanks, good point, I will

@leesteken Uh, I thought QLC would be better tbh, so reading your comment, I am probably completely missing something here ...

 

[leesteken]

@leesteken Uh, I thought QLC would be better tbh, so reading your comment, I am probably completely missing something here ...

QLC SSDs are little IOPS and with sustained write perform worst than spinning harddrives (except for SMR harddrives). Please search the forum. I'm a stranger on the internet, what do I know, maybe your experience with QLC drives might be great.

 

[Dunuin]

A short guideline:
- SMR HDDs -> avoid at all cost
- CMR HDDs -> only useful as additional cheap cold storage
- QLC SSDs -> avoid whenever possible
- TLC conumer SSDs -> might be fine for a low demanding small consumer grade homeserver with ext4/LVM
- Enterprise/Datacenter SSD with power-loss protection (the good expensive stuff you can't buy in your local electronic store) -> for everything else, especially when trying to run a proper server or at least more demanding server workloads like DBs and so on

 

[C3PO]

Thanks @Dunuin and others!

Will do some more reading and make sure to get a good SSD and than make the buy and start another great journey. Cannot wait

 

[mandud]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for bumping this thread.

I'm new on Proxmox and want to buy mini pc (at this time my thought on deskmini x300 ryzen 7 5700G)
At the beginning I want to set a Opnsense with 1 or 2 another VM (ubuntu or windows)

My question which best way to expand the ethernet port, by using M2 ethernet card, USB C ethernet card or maybe there's another best way to get more than 2 ethernet port

Thanks

Regards,
Mandud

 

[Dunuin]

Why not getting one of those MiniPCs with 4x or 8x 2.5 Gbit NICs in the first place if you now that you need them because a virtualized router is one of the main workloads?

 

[mandud]

Yes, I'm also looking for that option as well.

This another mini PC that I'll prefer to choose rather than X300.
Anyone have experience with this mini PC ? or which one that have best performance for Proxmox

CPU : Intel Core i3 1115G4 11Th Gen
Clock 3.0Ghz
GPU : Intel UHD Graphic
RAM : 2x Slot Sodim DDR4 support max 32GB
Storage : 1x SSD NVMe, 1x Sata 2.5 in
WiFi : 1x1xMPCIE wireless slot
LAN : 6 Port RJ45 2.5Gbps intel i225-V3
Display : HDMI, DP
USB : 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 3.0
OS : Support Windows 10/11, Linux, pfSense
Power 12V 4A
Size : 178x125x55mm
Weight unit 1200Gr
Material : Alumunium alloy
Cooling System : Fanless, Full Heatsink pure Cooper
Boot Option F11

Or this one:

* Mini PC Industrial Routers
* Intel Celeron Processor J4105 Quad Core Processor 1.5GHz Up to 2.5GHz 4M Cache
* 5 x Intel I225-V 2.5G LAN
* 2 x USB2.0, 2 x USB3.0
* HDMI

Thanks

Regards,
Mandud